Super Quiz: Up in the Air

October 1, 2015 at 1:40 a.m.

  1. For what do the letters "UFO" stand?

  2. Who commanded the Luftwaffe during World War II?

  3. What was the name of the supersonic airliner produced under an Anglo-French treaty?

  4. What phrase refers to pilots taking a plane beyond its designated altitude and speed limits?

  5. In what 1964 film did Slim Pickens play a B-52 bomber commander and pilot?

  6. Who was the author of the 1968 novel Airport?

  7. By what nickname was Manfred von Richthofen's fighter squadron known?

  8. What is the call sign for any Marine Corps aircraft carrying the U.S. president?

  9. Who starred as the German pilot in the 1966 film The Blue Max?

ANSWERS:

  1. Unidentified flying object

  2. Hermann Goering

  3. Concorde

  4. Pushing the envelope

  5. Dr. Strangelove

  6. Arthur Hailey

  7. "The Flying Circus"

  8. Marine One

  9. George Peppard

Weekend on 10/01/2015

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